Might some link posters want and benefit in some way by having the link let the site know that they shared the link? Not my thing, but something I've wondered about 🤔
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If you believe that websites having a more data on you to create an accurate profile of you for advertising purposes is beneficial then yes.
Maybe someone with a public identity and a youtube channel can get their channel more promoted by youtube by allowing youtube to see that they are sharing links? I very much prefer clean links and do not follow unclean without cleaning first which means I usually just skip unclean links. Just trying to understand why some that I'd think understand still post unclean links. Regardless, thanks for time you've spent explaining 🙏
they can and do however the side effect and the $$$ behind the interaction is the tracking and data collection. this is the same thing for fiat typical web APIs. they have to recover costs and make a profit so they make it invisibly from unaware users and sell their data then use it to manipulate them. any time an app uses a Google API, Google collects data.
If you're interested in the type of data per app, go here. It'll show per app which tracker and you can expand the tracker to show the data that is typically collected. [check an app] is what you want. The aurora store for Android (a proxy to install official APKs shows data from Exodus if you scroll down past the comments.
https://exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/
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